I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.